What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, February 1, 2013.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 19
Issue of Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, 2013
Posted inArts & Culture
This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the Encyclopedia Show, and the Upstairs Gallery.
Posted inBlogs
The Big Hurt and Twitter, so bad it’s good
Former White Sox slugger Frank Thomas’s Twitter feed is worth following, despite all the promos for his beer.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Thu 1/31: Theater Oobleck, Soup and Bread, and Hot Water Music
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, January 31, 2013.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The love doctor is in
Finding a sex-positive therapist. Plus: How to cheat gracefully.
Posted inBlogs
“Cathy Don’t Go”: A religious cult’s lost new-wave gem
Perhaps some jangly power pop will convince you that bar codes are evil.
Posted inBlogs
New goodies from the vaults of Bakersfield country legend Buck Owens
Omnivore Recordings uncovers some previously unreleased treasures of Bakersfield-style country.
Posted inBlogs
The New York Times continues to regret the errors
There’s a fly on the wall in the newsroom of the New York Times.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Whipping Man goes south
Northlight Theatre presents Matthew Lopez’s Civil War-era play, The Whipping Man.
Posted inBlogs
Mayor Rahm’s just a stubborn kind of fella when it comes to that O’Hare janitorial contract
No matter what juicy details the Sun-Times uncovers, Mayor Rahm refuses to criticize the company awarded a $99.4 million janitorial contract at O’Hare.
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12 O’Clock Track: Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas make Roxy Music’s “Avalon” sound menacing
The Swedish techno producers remix the charming and cheesy 1982 title song off of Roxy Music’s Avalon.
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Exhibits I might skip, part one: Gallery 400’s “Observer Effect”
Gallery 400’s “Observer Effect” explained—or not.
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about David Mamet, cheese-loving ex-Groupon copywriters, and up-and-coming Chicago comedians?
Also Obama’s presidency, an open-coffin funeral for a Newtown victim, D.C. vanity plates, and marrying a tree?
